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Crystal River current., 1887-05-14
ALcft-Hand Fur Glove

In quiet village on the Connecticut
River. in Massachusetts. where the
good people have been in the habit of
West every year for half century or
more. this very remarkable incident
occurred: The usual notice was given
from the p ulpit requesting the families
to send tn cir contributions of clothing,
etc, to family named. to be appraised
and arranged for shipm emit to clergy
mans family in the West. The articles
of clothing. in usual varie ty. were re-
ceived. and among them was very
fine fur glove for . the left hand. the
right-hand glove, hav ing been lost
The lady donating the glove ac.
companied it with u note explaining
why she sent it, and asked the ladies in
charge of the ''box" 10 exercise their
judgment as to the propriety Of putting
it with the rest The matter was dis.
cussed by the ladies who packed the
box, and they finally decided to send
the odd glove, attaching the don or q
note to it. =
In due time the clergyman sent his
letter of acknowledgment, stating that
the articles were very nice and accept
able. just what they needed. and they
were made happy and warm by the
generous gifts OF their Eastern friends,
adding. II want to thank you especially
for the left-hand fur glove. During the
late war lost my right hand. and this
glove is my great comfort as I drive
over the prairies when the thermom eter
ranges far below zorro. Please thank
the donor for her opportune gift" I
know these are facts. No one knew
anything in particular about this
| minister. not that he had been a soldie,
even. 1t is remarkable coincidence
| and may interest those who notice
providences. Those who notice pro.
videnees VIII have pFovidenoss ia
eatlea.' 40 says Matthew NaNrv.-
| ktsnsstiss,
Crystal River current., 1887-05-14
TAKE THE SUNNY SIDE.
let's oitener talk OF nobler deeds

let's oitener talk OF nobler deeds
And rarer OF the bad ones,
And sing about our happy days,
And not about onr sad ones.
We are not made to iret and sigh
And when grie! sleeps to wake it,
Bright happiness is standing by,
This life is what we make it.
Let's find the sunny side OF men -
Or be believers in it;
A light there is in every soul
That takes the pains to win it.
Oh! there is slumbering good in all,
And we, perchanee, may wake it;
Dur hands contain the magic wand;
This life is what we make it.
Then herc's those whose loving hearts
Shed light and Joy about them!
Thanks be to them Tor countless gems
We meier had known without them!
OH this should be a happy world
To all who may partake it:
The faults our own il it is not
This life is what we make it.
Crystal River current., 1887-05-14

Elk. Senator Thurman isseventy-two
years old, worth 500, 600, and frank
ly admits that lie would like to be
President. He is making 100000 .
year, It is said, as legal adviser to hts
professional brethren. who visit Col
umbus from all parts OF tho state to
consult him. His fee in such cAses y
Aavsr less thAn elQ0.
, 1887-04-30
KILOGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

New York, April 25th.-It il announced
that Mr.. AllsOpp, a Conservative, has been
elected NJ. P. for Burton.
The Germans maintain that NJ.
Schnaebeles1Stks head of IL gang Of spies
in .1he ptf9id6 General Boulanger, and
deny the statements that he was decOyed.
Pending All official investigation, France
Rtcalih, Notwithstanding the newspaper
sensations. p U@slJ
tas stated that the German railroads
re'readyltOdGanspoft to the frontier half
q million troops within four days.
1t is generally believed that the danger
of q war has not increased siuce
January.
Paris dispatches state that at a dinner
given at the Maritime Club, Mr.. Maclane,
Minister for the United States, replying to
M. Herbette's toast, praise the civiIizing
role of French genius, and predicted q
great future for France.
1t is understood that the Marquis of
Lansdowne has offered satisfactory terms
TO his Irish tenants.
New York, April 26th.-It is stated that
His Holiness the Pope has offered to under.
take the mediation of the Schnaebcle
incident. The facts of the case are still
disputed.
In the course of the debate in the House
of Commons. Mr.. Gladstone severely criti-
cizrd the Budget, which he declared was
at VARIANCE with sound financial principles.
The reduction Of the duties on tobacco
woultSsnot benefit the consumer. 1t would
be a. boon to reduce the. income tax, but
iqgNpll violate sound, principle, because
it's reduction should follow a rigid ecOnO-
n.y.. And. n6t be theCied at the expense Of
Acknowledgements which it is proposed to
was never made richer by adding yearly
100, OOO, 900 to it's savings, while it was
asked to retard the stalking fund, which
every sound financial adviser had ap-
proved.
Lord Randolph Churchill %applauded the
weighty words of Mr.. Gladstone. He con-
, 1887-04-30

To the Editor Of the ISL. Croic Acisl
Dear Sir,
l have to-day only to explain on what
ground 4Hbh16" HAS based his falsehood.
I was. adlSlinformet,of an attack made on
D gentleman by q mob of gallery politicians
on the Kings Wharf, as the author of Equity's
article, who coineides with Equity's sentiments
and aceorAin6a dp the defence; when
~the1Roafd5Be mos teliRent of the mob re-
quested to be heard and p~roffered a school
boys proportion las he called it) viz:
Suppose there were five Rumshops and to
each shop tenloafers, owmanyloafers would
there be?-Loud responsibility. Then if there
were ten shops with ten loafers to ch-ho
many2-One hundred.
He did not venture to explain the nature
of the miraculous appearance OF the nifty
more ~loafers. It certainly seems to me from
what I heard that he expected them to drop
from the clouds upon the establishment OF the
five more shops.
To this the gentleman replied that his rule
and proportion were evidently quite good, and
as a good rule ought to work we'll on both
sides, and as the prevailing desire was to see
fewer loafers and more revenue, he would
make the following proposition:
Namely to have a license for but one shop
in each town; for which he would pay $4,000
Pa, thereby causing a proportionate decrease
of the present loafers according to the rule)
at the same time considerably increasing the
revenuesl What do you say to such an arrange
megt, through which you achieve the effects
you desire (fewer l~oafers, larger revenues)?
N6'tesponse-dH disappeared. 1t will there
tore be perceived that Homo's assertion is a
talsehood5 founded on a comparison drawn
iA~ IeVeommon place equivocal conversation
principally to show them that they could
be cohfuted' .dipoh' their own pretended no.
tons.
In conclusion I would beg to say that I do
not believe that he could have found a more
appropriate term for his proportion, which
seems certainly to have originated in a school
and got developed at sea, for to SAL. the least
of it, it is but a nautical idea, which / am
happy to say is only an error, which cannot
affect the force of v~eracity.
Now Mr.. Editor you can (as the public
willy form an idea of the composition of your
correspondent Homo"
Respectfully
EQUITY"
St. Croi1, 27sh April, 1887.
, 1887-04-30
Btris1iansit& 81. Sruig.
Saturday, 3Oth April, 1887.

We trust our correspondent Equity" will
not take it as uncomplimentary if we say
that his letter published to-day interests us
more than any of his previous ~communica-
tions, the reason being that it sets forward
so plainly the essential difference in our
opinions on the rum.trade question. Says
tie arithmetician on the wharf.-the rum
shops with ten loafers each, furnish fifty
~loafers ten rumshops with ten loafers each,
furnish a hundred ~loafers.
To which Equity replies that to make
this right there must be o miraculous addition
of fifty ~loaters; that they must drop from the
clouds on. the establishment Of the five
additional rumshops.
Not at all, say we. The additional loafers
will come without a miracle and without
dropping from the clouds, they will be created
from the local mass of humanity, which
being part of humanity in general, is a
plastic material, capable of being moulded
to good and capable of being moulded to evil.
Did not a great teacher once write;
"How oft the sight of means to do i'll deeds
Makes III deeds doney1
And did not the greatest Of all teachers
include in the model prayer given to his
disciples, the petition "lead us not into
semptation"2
Five indulgent parents, FIVE spoiled child,
rem; ten indulgent parents, ten spoiled
children. Five easy masters, FIVE INDECENT
servants ten easy masters, ten INDECENT
servants, Five careless h~ousekeepers, five
pilfering maids; ten careless housekeepers,
ten p~iliering maids. All these and other
similar proportions are true in the rough, and
90 we believe the "school boy proportion"
discussed on the Kings wharf to be true in
the rough. 1t must not of course be carried
too far, as. "Equity's' friend very we'll
showed by the superstition that the rumshops
in each town were reduced to one, and asking
what then? It is plain. Of course, that the
drinkers@would not be reduced in proportion,
that many Of the drinkers who now visit,
say, the FIVE shops in Bassin, would congre-
gate at the one; but all would not, and it
would be found, especially after q little time
had elapsed th@ many would find it too
troublesome TO go SO far out of the way, and
others, missing the presence Of temptation,
would be broken of q bad habit. We are
nos advocating the supposed measure, but
only pointing out its tendency, which seems
20 us to be confirmed by experience every
where. Wherever reasonable restrictions
have been adopted there been an improve.
mens, wherever lax systems, or liberal sys-
tans. az some might prefer to call them,
have prevailed, there has been retrogression.
This We take TO be beyond dispute; and we
Shink The audience on the wharf rnght
sea1ly hare found something to say, and
on8hA moi 70 have disappeared"
The South western news., 1887-06-08
GEORGIA POLITICS.
A Brilliant Young Georgian Inter
viewed by Florida Editor.

Florida Herald.1
/ John B. Gordon will be the
next United States Senator from
Georgia"
The speaker was Col. John s
Gambler, Judge Advocate General
ofthat State, and one of the brain.
lest ana most distinguished OF
younger Georgiaus. lie is known
as one of the most vigorous and
capable politicians of his State, and
isagentleman of the highest stand
ing, both socially and in his pro.
fession of the law.
How is thatY asked the Herald
in surprise.
Well, Gordon has made Georgia
a magnificent Governor, and has
been converting his enemies into
friends with amazing rapidity and
regularity every day since his in
auguration. Wherever he goes
among the people he is irresistible.
He went down to Macon last week
the very stronghold of his enemies
and, before he left, Macon was
wild over him, and Major Hanson,
his powerful and long standing en-.
envy, of the Telegraph, was eulog.
izing him heartily. He went to
Savannah and captured the city,
all factions uniting in enthusiasm
for him. Augusta was great cen.
tire of opposition, but his memorial
day speech and visit to Augusta
changed all that, and there his OPP
ponents were turned to admiration.
He is magnetic and irresistible,
and the people of Georgia are more
enthusiastic about him than they
have ever BEEN
But how about Joe Brown
at is pretty well settled now
that Senator Brown will not be a
candidate for reelection. His
friends generally understand this
and it is safe to say that Senator
Brown will not be a candidate. If
he is not, you may put it down as
certain that Gordon will be Geor.
gia's next Senator.'
The South western news., 1887-06-08
GIRDLES AND GIRLS.
Silver Log Chains that Prove an
Old Assertion,
New York Herald. I

New York Herald.
Ever since Eve first put on cor
sets there have been fiippant sIlu-
sions made to a supposed fondnesa
that young ladies cherish of having
their waists squeezed.
No visible proof OF that weak
ness has ever been offered 10 the
public gaze until recently.
But Il is here now and the girls
can't dodge it.
The silver girdle business has
become fashionable, and young
men who are addicted to the arm
act are as blue as policemen. It's
hard enough to make an impress
ion through corset armour, but
when silver log chain is added,
mashitive humanity gives up and
takes to lamp'posts.
The new girdle is just such an
arrangement as the Grecian maid.
dens used to wear (B. CO. to keep
their Mother Hubbards from soar
ing over their heads and leaving
them in the highly ridiculous and
embarrassing position of a reversed
umbrella. 1t is made of silver
links or plates, and is worn outside
of everything, for the simple reas-
ems that it would be a very IN
comfortable thing to wear inside
and would seriously interfere with
the fit of a dress. Again, more
people see it on the outside, and
that's what it's worn for. AS an ar
ticIe of clothing the girdle is not a
practical success. 1t affords very
little protection in a rain storm Or
blizzard, and is calculated to breed
corns on the hips.
Naturally, it is worn around the
waist, because it's too big for the
neck, and girl couldn't grab her
skirts with one hand and her back
hair with the other if she wore it
around her arms. A smelling bot
tie, box of caramels, a powder
puff or, in fact, almost anything
can be hitched to the front end OF
the girdle as an excuse for wearing
it. 1t is convenient place 10
carry surplus hairpins.
Within the past week or two
Fifth avenue and Madison avenue
girls have bloomed out with CIR.
dies.
They are quite an expensive
shackle.
But with all their drawbacks
they have many advantages. When
The South western news., 1887-06-08
I hat Dread fwI Boy.

LIN loookin for a dreadful boy
docs anybody know himPl
Who's leading all the other bows
The way they shouldn't go in.
think, if 1 could find that bow.
I'd stop what he is DOM
A'briaging all the other bows
To certain moral ruin.
There's Tommy Green, a CROWN
lad,
! His mother does inform nae.
The way that he is getting bad
WOhld certainly alarm me
She feels the blame should rest
upon
John Brown a recent comer-
For Tommy was lovely child
A year ago this summer.
But when l spoke to Mrs. Brown
Her Utmost soul was shaken,
10 think that Mrs. Green could be
SO very much mistaken.
She did assure me Johnny was
AS good a child as any,
Except forlearniug naughty things
From Mrs. Writings Benny.
And Mrs, Whiting frets because
OF Mrs. Blackham's Freddy,
She fears les taught young Benia.
Some wicked tricks already.
Yet Fred is such an innocent
q have it from his mother),
He wouldn't think of doing wrong,
interrupted by another.
Oh! when l think I've found the
boy
Whose ways are so disgracin',
1 always learn he's some one else,
And lives some other place in.
And five cannot search him out
He will (most dreadful pity y
Spoil all the boys who other wise
Would ornament the city.
--Babyhood.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
Negro Shines in Washington.

Macon Telegraph.
The negro cropped out on all oc.
casions at the Washington drill,
and it is asserted on high authori.
ty that New York and PhiladeI.
phia companies would not attend
on this account. A special to the
New Orleans Picayme furnishes
this:
"This afternoon, as the Louis
vile Legion were marching from
the drill ground to their camp, they
pissed party of negroes standing
on the side of the road, One of the
negroes commenced to curse the
Louisville boys because of their &C.
ton the other day in leaving the
grounds when they were placed be-
hind negro company. A member
of the Legion stepped out of the
ranks and struck the negro several
hard blows, knocking him down
and beating him fearfully- II
looked as if there would be a gen.
eral fight, but the negroes near by
were prudent enough to drag away
the man who had used the insult,
ing language. Later a lieutenant
of one of the negro companies de-
clared in the camp restaurant that
"there would be circus in camp"
and that "his company would be IN
the middle of the circus" He in.
timated also that an attack would
be made on the Vicksburg South
r0ns tonight. One of Gen. Ord.
ways staff officers heard the threat
and reported them to the General.
Subsequently Capt. Searles went
over and told Gen. Ordway that if
any negroes came around the camp
of the SOuthrons tonight he would
not be responsible for the conse-
quences, and his men were pre-
pared for anything that might hap.
pen. Gen. Ordway took pains to
see that the negroes would not be
foolish enough to attempt a row.
Capt. Searles has also received sew.
eral anonymous letters informing
him that his company would be
peppered with rotton eggs when
they leave here. If this is at
tempted, the Captain says, some
one will get hurt"
The South western news., 1887-06-08
An Infants Weight.

The Journal of Education says
that an infant loses from three to
six ounces in weight during the
first four to six days after birth;
by the seventh day it should have
regained its birth-weight; from
that to the fifth month it ought to
gain about five ounces per week, or
about six drains day; after the
fifth month about four drains a
day; at the fifth month it ought to
have doubled its birth-weight, aud
IN sixteen month quadrupled it,
The South western news., 1887-06-08
A Spunky Woman.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, June t.
Miss Mary Childers,a pretty school
teacher Of Trenton. Ca, heard
some time ago that John Morgars
had been circulating slanderous re-
ports about her. She rode across
Lookout Mountain, fifteen miles,
and at the muzzle of a shotgun,
forced her traducer to apologize.
Then she published Morgars as an
infamous scoundrel and a bad
man generally and MOrgars sent
her a challenge to fight. The little
woman went to the spot to meet
him, but Morgars didn't show up,
and at last accounts Miss Childers
was hunting for him with o horss.
whip.
The South western news., 1887-06-08

/ a girl is drowning a girdle is much
surer thing to lift her out with than
hair. Hair is liable to come off
In walking through crowd the
escort could take a hitch of the
chain around his wrist and be dead
sure of his prey. Then they are
convenient things to attach dogs
to, and in case of defense can be
used as slung shots. When trav-
cling and living in strange hotels a
girl will find the girdle an infinite
source of protection by using it to
attach the door knob to the bed.
post.
When the wearer disrobes she
hargs the shackles over a chair
back, as she does her stockings.
They won't stand up in corner,
because they are too weak,
kneed.
The girls have got the girdle very
badly. 1t is liable to injure the
matrimonial market some.
But after all, a girdled girl is
the dealicacy of the season.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
London Is a Big Town.
St. Nicholas.

st. Nicholas.
IF any one were to walk one way
through all the streets of London,
he would be obliged to go dis
tdnee of 1900 miles, or as far as
it is across the continent from New
York to San Francisco. In our
approach to this city as well as our
rambles through its streets, we
shall not be struck so much by its
splendid and imposing appearance
as by its immensely. Go where we
may, there seems to be no END of
the town. 1t is fourteen miles one
way, aud eight the other, and COM
tains a population of nearly four
million people, which is greater in
deed, than that of Switzerland or
the kingdoms of Denmark and
Greece combined. We are told on
good authority that there are more
Scotchmen Id London than in Ed
inburg, more Irishmen than in
Dublin, and more Jews than in
Palestine, with foreigners from all
part of the world, including a
great number of americans. Yet
there are SO many Englishmen in
London that one is not likely to
notice the presence Of these peo-
pie Of other nations.
This vast body of citizens eat
every year 100000 oxen, 1905
600 sheep, 5000, 900 chickens and
game birds. not to speak of calves,
hogs, and different kinds Of fish.
They consume 500, 100000 oysters
which, which, although it seems
like a large number, would only
give, if equally divided among all
the people, one oyster every third
day to each person. There are
10000 servants in London,
enough people to make large city;
but as this gives only one servant
to each dozen citizens, it is quite
evident that great many of the
people must wait on themselves.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
Enthusiasm at Mobile.

MOBILE, May 30.--News of the
victory of Lomax Rifles at the
Washington drill was received with
much enthusiasm this afternoon.
Citizens have been decorating their
houses and preparing to give the
victors a warm reception Wednes-
day morning.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
De-lec-ta Lave.

The use of Delectalave imparts
such agreeable sensation to the
mouth and teeth, as to make it a
pleasure to children as we'll as to
adults. Use Delectalave when you
perform your daily additions. The
habitual use will preserve the teeth
in a healthy condition during life.
Fol sale by j r. James Son DaN .
son Ga
The South western news., 1887-06-08


Col. Robert Ingersoll is evident
ly no prohibitionist. He recently
sent an old friend a very old jug Of
rare whisky, and with it were the
following lines in the ColonePs well
known chirography. 1t is a tri-
butte to the ardent that old topers
will enjoy, and is entitled to take
rank along with editor Albert La
mars tribute to the mint julep: 81
send you some of the most wonder
tul whisky that ever drove the
skeleton from feast or paint
ed landscapes in the brain of man.
1t is the mingled souls of wheat
and corn. In it you will find the
sunshine and the shadow that chas.
ed each other over the bilIowy
fields, the breath of June, the carol
of the lark, the dews of night, the
wealth of summer and autum's
rich content, all golden with i'm,
prisohed light Drink it and you
will hear the voice of men and
maidens singing the "Harvest
Home" mingled with Laughter OF
children. Drink it and you will
feel within your blood the star.lit
dawns, the dreamy, tawny dusks
of many perfect days. For forty
years this liquid joy has been with.
in the happy slaves of oak, long.
ing to touch the lips of man.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
True, Though Remarkable.

eyes, Pm from Dakota" he
said meekly, as he got into a con.
versation with a man on an Eas,
tern train.
"Ah, IS that go? lam thinking
of going out there myself to invest
Ill some farming land.
"We have some very fine land"
SO | understandable are not
some of the stories they tell of its
fertility exaggerated?'
why MY friend. am sorry 10
say some of them are downright
untruths.
That's what thought. Now,
what is the most remarkable in
stance of the fertility OF Dakota
soil which ever came Under your
observation ?
Well | believe the case of my
pump might go at the head of the
list.
What was it p
4 dug a well about forty feet
deep the first season l was there,
and put down wooden pump. It
happened that it was made out of
small cottonwood log which was
a little green, and the soil at the
bottom of that well, forty feet
from the surface, was SO fertile
that that pump took root, and it
also grew up and branched out,
and, now, while my children play
in swing attached to one of the
branches | pump water through
the hole which still remains 10 the
trunk.
DO you tell that for the TRUTH
why, certainly sir, | never tell
anything but the truth T
Are you engaged in farming Of
the real estate business p
why Pm engaged in neither,
my friend, neither. Pm a preacher.
| went out there as a missionary
seven years ago. and though my
work has been humble. I trust it
has had beneficial influence on
our people.
The South western news., 1887-06-08
"WVV1J
BERNHEIM Bros, & URI.

yes said Miss Spinster, with
an engaging simper. II have seen
twenty-six springs" "Who is your
oculist?' inquired Mr.. Oldboy.
"My oculist ?" Eyes. If you have
only seen twenty-six springs you
must have been blind at some
time. "-Harper's Bazaar.